Homeland star Claire Danes is the cover star of the May issue of ASOS magazine, and while we've often pondered whether she has a fear of fun fashion - so rarely is she seen wearing anything other than a monochromatic sheath dress, preferably by Calvin Klein - this shoot puts that theory to bed.

And the shocks don't stop there either. Clean queen, Danes, appears to have a hitherto undiscovered trashy side:

"I'm a sales slut. I'm just very seduced by a sale", she reveals in the accompanying interview before sharing her distinctly slovenly feelings about jeans: "It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy."

While we're not exactly seeing Danes as some sort of latter-day Waynetta Slob character (sweatpants indeed!) her choice of TV viewing does nothing to dispel this image to be honest. Who knew the recently Golden Globes anointed best actress in a TV drama would (or even could), be a huge fan of ITV2's nonsense docu-tragedy The Only Way is Essex?

"Damn, I love that show... (
TOWIE
) is just so good. We don't have anything that rivals it. I don't even care if it's real or not, it's thoroughly entertaining."

Shut-up! So, being a top Hollywood actress doesn't mean you can't partake in the guilty pleasures of the masses after all. Claire, we had you all wrong, let's get the beers and pizzas in, slip into our sweatpants and have a well reem night in together soon.